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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"sociocultural framework"”.
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Rape Definitions and Perceptions Among Korean Women: Application of a Sociocultural Framework
… in the ways Korean women of different sociocultural backgrounds define and perceive rape. In the rape definition study, the dimensions and the breadth of rape definitions emerged. Nine categories were identified: Five categories (i.e., Involves Sexual Acts or Acts, Involves Consent, …
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Raising Immigrant Kenyan Children in America: How Families Negotiate Academic and Cultural Issues
… explained how the findings interacted with the sociocultural framework. In general, the goals and experiences of my participating families appeared to resemble those of many other immigrants from other parts of the world living in the U.S. Theoretically, the findings seemed to fit in quite well …
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Intelligibility and *Context in Reader Responses to Contact Literary Text
… reading of contact literary texts. Utilizing a sociocultural framework of text and context developed by Halliday and Hasan (1985) as well as an intelligibility model developed by Smith (1992), the reading of these two samples of contact literary text are examined for their linguistic, critical, …
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The out of school literacy practices of children with specific learning disabilities : a case study
… in the United Kingdom and North America within a sociocultural framework. However, there is very little research on the out of school literacy practices of children in South Africa and there is a general dearth of research on the out of school literacy practices of children with specific learning …
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The Effect Of Direct And Indirect Corrective Feedback Taking A Sociocultural Approach
… students' reactions to feedback structured in a sociocultural framework through response to six point Likert questionnaires. The study did not find a statistical significance on the effect of direct and indirect corrective feedback structured within the ZPD on the students' accuracy. Despite a …
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FIRST GRADERS AS SENSITIVE SOCIAL PARTNERS AND SKILLED READERS
This mixed methods dissertation is guided by a sociocultural framework and a pragmatist stance to contribute to early literacy scholarship about minority children. In particular, I explore the relationship between low socioeconomic status Puerto Rican children’s reading experience and their social …
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Spanish-Speaking Students Perceptions of EFL as Demonstrated in Writing for an Undergraduate English Phonetics and Phonology Course in Bogotá Colombia
… audiovisual, and audio texts. This study uses a sociocultural framework, where issues of cognitive perception, local reality, and the abstract, dialogical, and fragmented nature of texts helped foreign language students interpret and reconstruct foreign language through virtual reality.'
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Exploring historical and contemporary fragments of nurses’ invisible practice
… about who nurses are and what they do. Using a sociocultural framework, this thesis provides an analysis of historical and contemporary texts related to hospital-based nursing, and argues that many themes operative in these "official versions" of practice have rendered the breath and complexity …
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Stories worth telling: How one school navigates tensions between innovation and standards
… relation to making work public.</p><p>I used a sociocultural framework, which allowed for an examination of the situation-as-a-whole, to see learning as distributed among people, time and objects, and to view artifacts of student work as boundary objects ---sites of negotiation among people from …
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Beyond the Screen: The Integration of XR Media in Canadian Cultural Institutions
… Trinity Square Video and Inter/Access. Using a sociocultural framework, this dissertation meets and probes at the nexus of technology, artistry, institutional imperatives, access, and audience interactivity with XR. By offering insights into film festivals’ engagement with XR, emphasizing its …
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Peer interactions in mixed-age EFL secondary school classrooms
Drawing from a sociocultural framework, this study investigated peer interactions in mixed-age (M-A) English as a foreign language (EFL) secondary school classrooms in Germany which are simultaneously mixed-ability classrooms. M-A is increasingly used (Thurn, 2011), but is under-researched in …
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O le poutu: Women's roles and Samoan language nests
… answers to these questions three theoretical frameworks were utilised. Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model provided concepts for understanding the developmental changes occurring in the transitional relationships between families and language nests. The second theoretical perspective …
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Weaving their identities: a narrative inquiry into Korean heritage language learners
… a heritage language learning course. I used a sociocultural framework for this study and methods of narrative inquiry. I chose narrative inquiry because it raises the voices of research participants, particularly the voices of minorities whose stories have not been told (Clandinin & Connelly, …
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PAIR INTERACTION IN SPANISH LANGUAGE CLASSROOMS THAT ENROLL HERITAGE AND L2 LEARNERS
… an effort to address this gap and drawing from a sociocultural framework, this study investigated the interactions of Spanish heritage language (HL) learners and Spanish L2 learners enrolled in the same class. Twenty-four intermediate-level learners of Spanish, organized in four HL-HL, four HL-L2, …
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An Investigation into Digital Technology Assisted Science Learning of Secondary School Age Learners Outside of Formal Teaching Contexts.
… outside of the classroom. In order to develop a framework for further research in this area, this research adopted a multiple case study design using semi-structured interviews and observations as data collection methods. In particular, seven Year 9 students (13-14 years old) studying at a …
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Languaging and learning compared across EFL course delivery modes
… Conducted within a Vygotskian (1978, 1987) sociocultural framework, data for this quasi-experimental study include recordings of pairwork in group classes and of tutor-learner interaction in one-to-one classes, and also think-alouds of individuals in online courses, thus drawing on …